David Gilmour and Roger Waters each laid declare to the legacy of Pink Floyd, hardly ever making solo statements.
The distinction was that Gilmour remained on the helm, main Pink Floyd to a few extra studio albums after Waters’ bitter mid-’80s departure. Some have truly argued that the primary one, Momentary Lapse of Cause, was nothing greater than a Gilmour solo mission dressed up with the band moniker.
Extra complicated was the relative quiet of Waters, who emerged as Pink Floyd’s undisputed mastermind after main them by way of 1977’s Animals, 1979’s The Wall and 1983’s The Ultimate Lower. His first solo album, maybe understandably, featured leftover materials from the Floyd days. However then Waters went on to launch simply three rock solo albums earlier than his seventy fifth birthday.
Pink Floyd’s remaining Gilmour-led initiatives, The Division Bell and The Limitless River, had been much more collaborative. However Gilmour by no means actually picked up the solo tempo, even after the loss of life of co-founding member Richard Wright summarily ended Pink Floyd.
Maybe their hall-of-fame run within the band they fought so viciously over had left Gilmour and Waters with fewer concepts. Or possibly they simply actually loved the middle-aged, rocking-chair life. Nonetheless, these hardly ever launched data offered intriguing glimpses of their musical life exterior of Pink Floyd – and lasting insights into the elements of the previous that they nonetheless needed to hold ahead.
How do they stack up? Here is our rating of each rock solo album by David Gilmour and Roger Waters.
Rating Each David Gilmour/Roger Waters Solo Album
They each laid declare to the Pink Floyd legacy, whereas solely hardly ever stepping out with solo works.
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